The legendary life of Deng Youmei.

Deng Youmei was born into a miserable family of poor farm workers. His father had five brothers in his life, but he starved to death and sold one. His father later fled to Tianjin to settle down, and Deng Youmei was born in the seaside of Tianjin. When Deng Youmei 12 years old, his father lost his job and his family went back to Shandong, so Deng Youmei joined the local traffic station in the Bohai Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, delivered information to his parents, served as a guide, and was praised by the army chiefs many times. Since then, he has joined the New Fourth Army and the East China Field Army led by Comrade Chen Yi, and successively served as a correspondent and actor in the enemy engineering department of Luzhong Military Region. After the war of liberation began, he went to the famous Eighth Division of Lunan to do firewire literature and art work. He personally experienced many famous battles, such as Luoyang Campaign and Kaifeng Campaign, until millions of heroes crossed the river and occupied Nanjing. Deng Youmei often took part in night marches, covering more than 60 kilometers, and wrote exciting and good articles at the front.

His essay "Members of the Art Troupe in Huaihai Front Line" was published in Literary and Art Newspaper because it described the heroic spirit of the People's Liberation Army and showed his talent and aura as a writer. As the editor-in-chief, when the article was published, Ding Ling wrote more than 200 words of comments for this young scholar who grew up in the war. On the eve of the founding of New China, Deng Youmei was ordered to be transferred to Xinhua News Agency Naval Branch as a trainee reporter for a period of time. Soon, he was transferred to Beijing, and under the guidance and enthusiastic support of Lao She, Zhao Shuli and other literary masters, he spent several years full of vitality and joy. He went deep into life, worked as a construction captain and secretary of the Party branch in Beijing Construction Company, and worked as a bricklayer, bricklayer, hauler and rebar-tying with workers. At the same time, another batch of his works from life came out one after another, and his masterpiece On Yizhou Road also won the first prize of Virgin Land in Yalu River magazine from 65438 to 0956. Then I wrote Love Fiction on the Cliff. After the novel was published, it was quickly seen by two film and television organizations in Beijing, hoping to be put on the screen. Even the big star Zhao Dan came to Beijing to personally discuss the adaptation of the script with him. Later, Deng Youmei wrote such famous works as Salt Lake, Painting Han and Wu Na, and became a "Beijing School Writer". Deng Youmei's works are full of life breath, which may be due to his tortuous and legendary life course. When Deng Youmei was thirteen or fourteen years old, he returned to Tianjin to make a living in order to avoid the raids of the Japanese puppet troops. At that time, Deng Youmei, who was on the verge of starvation, didn't think much when he saw the recruiter, so he signed up. One night, he was loaded into a stuffy tanker and pulled all the way to Qingdao. Then they plunged into a ship loaded with bauxite. Deng Youmei didn't know he was a worker until he came to Tuoshan Factory in Yamaguchi Prefecture. You can imagine the days of workers. In high-intensity labor, in addition to being beaten and humiliated, I punched and kicked when my hands and feet were slow, and I was too tired to faint. The supervisor threw cold water on him, and if he resisted a little, he was punished immediately; And there are only two steamed buns mixed with vegetable leaves every day. In fact, Deng Youmei has been on the verge of death since he boarded the cargo ship from China to Japan. Almost every day, he saw his compatriots being trampled to death. Deng Youmei was the youngest worker at that time, and it was a narrow escape to return to China alive. Later, due to the American bombing of Japan, Deng Youmei was finally repatriated.

After escaping from the jaws of death, he was full of love for the motherland and hatred for the Japanese invaders, found troops, joined the New Fourth Army led by Comrade Chen Yi, and joined the ranks of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the front line of the Liberation War and the construction of a new China. However, from the beginning of the 1957 anti-"Right" movement, Deng Youmei was labeled as "Right". It was not until 1962 that he was transferred to Anshan in Northeast China and became a creator who was not allowed to create. But a few years later, the storm of the "Cultural Revolution" swept through, and Deng Youmei was doomed. He was upgraded from "Rightist" to "black leader on the black line of gangs" and was transferred to Panjin area to reclaim barren hills. At the beginning of 1976, the factory personnel department handled the "retirement" formalities for him, and Deng Youmei, then 45, had just returned to Beijing. Soon, the Gang of Four collapsed, the motherland was sunny, and the fate of Deng Youmei changed. An old comrade-in-arms saw an article at home saying that he remembered Comrade Chen Yi, an old army commander, and wanted to publish it immediately. In this way, an article marking the turning point of his life, Our Commander, was published in Shanghai Literature and Art and won the first prize of the national excellent novel. Since then, novels such as Talking about Taoranting and Salt Lake, like exotic flowers, have added gorgeous colors to the spring of the motherland. Deng Youmei is still alone when he is nearly half a century old, so re-establishing a family has become a topic he has to face every day. But 22 years of "Rightist" life made him feel that family is the heaviest mental burden. Deng Youmei said that since 1953 got married, she has only given her a heavy pressure in politics and life, and she is a big hat of a "right" family. He can't even support himself when his monthly salary is only seven dollars. How does he fulfill his responsibilities as a husband and father to his wife and daughter? In order to support his daughter, his wife asked him for a divorce. What reason does he have to disagree? What's more, before his wife left home under objective pressure, she unpacked and washed all his parents' quilts, cotton pads, cotton-padded jackets and trousers and bought shirts that could last for several years. In this regard, Deng Youmei has been very grateful and guilty. Therefore, after the divorce, what he felt was just a relief. They all say that "no official is light", but what Deng Youmei experienced most was "being homeless and light". So, I don't know how many matchmakers were politely declined by him. Indeed, marriage is a kind of fate.

When Han stood in front of him, she spoke frankly, with kind virtue and generous mind, which made her feel "to respond with the same voice, to seek for the same kind of photos" and determined to "chase dragons from the clouds, tigers from the wind and return to the phoenix when she died". Soon they organized a * * "harbor". After marriage, whenever a novel is finished, Han will be the first reader of this novel, because Mr. Deng is eager to hear Mrs. Han's first feelings and the first reader of his works. Just as Deng Youmei was about to finish writing the Smoke Pot, the "World War" in their family finally broke out. Mrs. Han took out many "handcuffs" used by her wife and returned to her family. After two days of weather, on the third day, Mr. Deng called and casually said, "Are you coming back for dinner today?" "Of course I will go back for dinner." Seeing that Mr. Deng took the initiative to speak, Mrs. Han "triumphed" with satisfaction. As soon as he entered the door, Mr. Deng said, "The rice and soup are all cooked. Please stir fry and I'll write a few more lines. " "all right." Mrs. Han got busy as soon as she entered the door. Cooking is "high-tech", which determines what kind of cuisine and level a family belongs to. Deng Youmei just did what the second master should do, and the power to cook was given to his wife, so that she could "shine" at a critical time. This is also Mr. Deng's respect for her. Of course, Mr. Deng, like all men who have suffered a lot, is never picky about eating and dressing, and has nothing to say about his wife's famous Cantonese dishes. At dinner that day, Mrs. Han found that Mr. Deng looked pale. When she touched her forehead, it was very hot and her heart was trembling. She glanced at Mr. Deng and bowed her head in embarrassment and said, "You have a bad cold today. Go to bed early. " Mr. Deng said quietly, "Hey, when I finish writing." For several days, Mr. Deng had a high fever and didn't go to the hospital for treatment. It is too much trouble to take sleeping pills and cold medicine.

After "Smoke Pot" was finished, Mrs. Han looked at Mr. Deng's weak body when she read the last line "Finished in a persistent high fever". She was so sad that she said regretfully, "I am really hurt." I am not a good wife, and I am ashamed to say so. In order to write this "Smoke Pot", he once went to Hengshui, Hebei Province, lived in the factory of Wang Xisan, a master of internal painting, and had a heart-to-heart talk with Wang Xisan for several days and nights. In August in Beijing, he began to write. The temperature is as high as 38 degrees Celsius, and he is particularly afraid of heat. He gets up at 4 o'clock every morning and begins to write. Sweat dripped down my neck on the desk and I kept writing for two months. His arms, neck and thighs are covered with prickly heat, but his emotions are all involved in the "smoke pot". As a reporter, I know that writing is most afraid of being disturbed by others. And I am really sorry to quarrel with him at this moment. " Through this "family trivia", readers can easily see that they, like ordinary families, are bound to have customs and quarrels. However, he has never been an unreasonable person, and Mrs. Han will not haggle over every ounce. In addition to temporary excitement, it is more about mutual understanding and mutual accommodation.

The understanding of his wife Han stems from one thing. Once I went to their house on business, a young woman came in with a baby in her arms. Mrs. Han and her daughter Xiaoyan immediately came forward to hug the child. Mrs. Han shouted, "Jingjing, Jingjing, show it to grandma." Then he asked the young woman, "Mei Mei, how is your mother? She is very happy this time. With her little grandson, she won't be lonely. " Then, she turned to me and said, "Look, I'm a grandmother, too." It turns out that Mei Mei is the daughter of Deng Youmei and his ex-wife. In this regard, Mrs. Han once explained to me: "We have no hatred, so why should we create artificial troubles?" His wife's open-mindedness is naturally the most gratifying thing for Mr. Deng. He proudly told me: "On one occasion, my wife organized a trip to Dongling, and she offered to take Jingjing with her. I didn't expect Jingjing's school to have activities, so I switched to the second batch. I signed up, but my wife didn't go because of other things at Jingjing School. She really cares about this granddaughter. "